Meiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko quits her job and encourages Taneda to have his band become professional.
Acting
Aoi Miyazaki's dead-eyed office despair is too real
Score
Original songs that actually sound like struggling indie band
Direction
Miki captures manga's emotional beats without cringe
Director
Takahiro Miki
Aoi Miyazaki
Meiko Inoue
Kengo Kora
Naruo Taneda
Kenta Kiritani
Jiro "Billy" Yamada
Ayumi Ito
Ai Kotani
Arata Iura
Rikutaro Saeki
Yoichi Kondo
Kenichi Kato
Kento Nagayama
Ohashi
Sayuri Iwata
Ritsuko Ayukawa
Jun Miho
Meiko's Mother
Kazuo Zaitsu
Naruo's Father
Natsuki Okamoto
Meiko's Colleague
Tarō Suwa
Billy's Father
Toru Nomaguchi
Meiko's Boss
Ryotaro Yonemura
Naruo's Colleague
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapting Inio Asano's manga required capturing his signature 'beautiful mundanity'—the film shoots Tokyo's concrete overpasses and convenience stores with the same ache as the characters.
The band's music was performed by the actors themselves; Kengo Kora trained for months to make Taneda's guitar playing look authentically amateur-prodigy.
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